I agree with you completely that the universities aren't the answer here. I might have been good at 68k Assembler back when I was taking my computer architectu

I agree with you completely that the universities aren't the answer here. I might have been good at 68k Assembler back when I was taking my computer architecture course, but I haven't touched it since the Lord of the Rings films came out. I wasn't trying to say that Universities were any good at this job, but that they're an example of how a central trusted certification agency can fail. I don't, however, see how it's going to get rid of the the bad interviewers. Since the idea is to do a pre-interview to screen out the dead weight, it means that the individual firms will still need to do a more specific interview. Thus, we'll still have the same local interviewers asking the same questions about trigraphs in C. The problem isn't just that these people suck at giving interviews - it's that they believe that they're GREAT at it.